Roll up, roll up and roll up your sleeves prospective Conservative candidates
Giles Dilnot
The Conservative Party will be looking to select candidates to a number of high profile or marginal seats to start the fight to retake seats lost in 2024, or in one case to pick up the baton after on MP announced she’s standing down.
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The unending humiliation of being a Young Conservative
Oliver Dean
At the moment, when I tell people that I am a young conservative, I do so as a hint of rouge appears on my cheeks. I mumble my words, hoping that they will think I am some right-wing nutcase who isn’t worth their time. It doesn’t bring me joy, but it feels necessary in our current climate.
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When I voted for being better off out, I meant it on so many levels
John Redwood
The UK has shown its independence of European political plans, and it’s future lies globally and with the Commonwealth. The EU’s future is easier to arrange without the UK as a dissenting member.
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Trust me, Trade Unions could become Conservatism’s future allies
Matthew Jeffery
History remembers political movements for the future they build, not the battles they keep refighting. Conservatives won the argument about restraining trade union power. The challenge now is to build something new from that victory.
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Political parties should welcome, not crush, internal dissent
Peter Franklin
A party leader can use his or her control of front bench appointments, candidate lists and membership rolls to crush internal dissent. But that won’t work on the people who matter most: the voters. Winning them over — or at least enough of them — will require so much more than a one-note performance.
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Those Home Office pamphlets lay bare Labour’s failed thinking on immigration
Miriam Cates
Those on the Left who maintain that all cultures are worthy of respect are also deeply hypocritical; you cannot on the one hand praise such ideas as women’s equality and individual freedom while failing to condemn those cultures that oppose such principles.
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Khan needs to come clean about the London Stadium
James Ford
On his watch, the public body that should be at least breaking even – and maybe even generating a profit – for Londoners is being systematically run into the ground.
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Why Conservatives should back Labour’s planning reforms
Lord Banner KC and Jack Airey
The Conservatives can stand with the millions who want a home of their own, and the many whose livelihoods depend on building them, while still speaking for local people who want development done right.
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Kemi, it’s time to get real about climate change
Helen Millman
Conservatism has traditionally understood that facts cannot be negotiated with. Markets, public finances, demographics and geopolitics impose constraints that governments ignore at their peril. Climate change belongs to this same class of realities.
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Strong walls, but a weaker State – smaller government is where the UK should head
Ffinian Elliott
Whether they’re arresting people for mean tweets, forcing electric-car drivers to pay for each mile they drive, or even just warning people not to use a barbecue, stronger citizens need a smaller government, and we need it now.
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